Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions by Hanno Sauer

Author:Hanno Sauer
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2017-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

This loosens the tracking relation between sentimentalism’s psychological and its metaphysical component, because now we can imagine cases where the former becomes disconnected from the latter. I might have endorsed the invasion in Iraq as right because of my belief that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. I was wrong, however, because the property of being right is constituted by the feelings I would have had under ideal conditions. But under ideal conditions, I would have known that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and thus the corresponding response-dependent property would not have been instantiated under those conditions. My judgment would have been erroneous, because I would have judged some action to be right (simply by approving of it) which is not really right (because the action does not instantiate the “idealized” property of rightness).

Interestingly, this is the only kind of idealization that works for the emotionist. One could, it wrongly seems, idealize both elements of the sentimentalist account. Call this *emotionism′′′:

*Emotionism′′′

PT″. A subject S judges that an action A is morally wrong iff S would disapprove of it under conditions of full relevant information and rationality.

MT″. An action A is morally wrong iff a subject S would disapprove of it under conditions of full relevant information and rationality.

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